Episode 110: That Music Can't Be Good For Them! Music And Teen's Moods

Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teens Into Adulthood

Kenneth Wilgus, PhD, P.C.

Christian Parenting, Christianity, Teens, Education, Teenagers, Kids, Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Adolescents, How To, Parenting Teens, Parents

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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What should parents do when their teenagers are listening to music that promotes depressing themes or even violence? Does music cause depression in teenagers? Today we take on the often distressing issue of watching our teenagers consume music that really can't be good for them. What are effective ways to intervene? Aren't there exceptions to this whole "giving freedom" in music choices when that same music can be damaging? Got questions or feedback? We want to hear from you! [email protected] Join us on Patreon for bonus content and more: https://www.patreon.com/FeedingTheMouthThatBitesYou

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0:00.0	You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.
0:05.4	A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world. As always,
0:10.6	we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus. Hey, everyone and welcome back. On today's
0:17.7	episode, we'll be discussing music and teenagers' moods.
0:22.4	So there are times that I wonder if what my kids are listening to is making them
0:27.2	even more moody than they were possibly before.
0:31.9	Yeah.
0:32.1	But I remember Dr. Ken says that music is one of the first things that we give over to our kids to let
0:38.4	them choose. Like you're not going to be able to control what's going into your kids AirPods anyway.
0:42.9	You can't. They're going to listen to whatever they want. I remember, side note, back when I was a
0:50.3	kid and we only had radios. We didn't have. We actually had a disc man.
0:55.1	I think I did.
0:55.9	But I remember listening.
0:57.5	I wasn't allowed to listen to anything but Christian music.
0:59.7	And when I was about seventh or eighth grade, I realized if I listened to it really quietly in my room, my dad couldn't tell that I was listening to the rock station.
1:09.7	He couldn't control me. So I know first hand you can't control your
1:13.2	kids. That's why you went through that whole drug phase. Didn't you? That was exactly right.
1:18.4	That was about the worst thing I did. My parents were pretty lucky. But it is. You're right.
1:22.8	Jessica, it's one of the first freedoms that we hand over to our teenagers when they turn 13.
1:27.1	You can listen to
1:28.8	whatever you like. Now you hope that they still listen to good things and you might
1:33.4	occasionally drop that, you know, but you know that what we listen to, what we put into our
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